kopejka

English

Noun

kopejka (plural kopejkas)

1. Alternative spelling of kopeika (“kopek”).
   • 1905 June, Edith Sellers, “Official Poor Relief in Russia: A ‘Topsyturvy’ System”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume LVII, number CCCXL, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co.; London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., Printers, page 1030:

     And this is in a great measure because of the taxes they are forced to pay, taxes for which they obtain in return nothing, not even the certainty of a few kopejki as pauper relief when too old and feeble to work.

   • 1951, V. L. Borin, Civilization at Bay, London: The Forty-Five Press, page 118:

     From The Progressive History of Russia we learn that in 1912 the average wage of an industrial proletarian in Russia was fifty-five kopejkas per day.

   • 1952 February 29, Enfant Terrible [pseudonym], “Should fines be graduated?”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, year 26, number 76, Kingston, Ont., page four:

     Tolstoy gave one ruble and the laborer only a few kopejkas.

   • 1994, Centre for Co-operation with the Economies in Transition, Investment Guide for Belarus, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, →ISBN, page 164:

     Roubles are separated from kopejkas by a period (eight thousand Roubles and fifty kopejkas - BRb 8000.50).

Czech

Noun

kopejka f

1. kopek (one-hundredth of a ruble)

Declension

Declension of kopejka (hard feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	kopejka	kopejky
genitive	kopejky	kopejek
dative	kopejce	kopejkám
accusative	kopejku	kopejky
vocative	kopejko	kopejky
locative	kopejce	kopejkách
instrumental	kopejkou	kopejkami

Further reading

• “kopejka”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
• “kopejka”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989